Oh wait. It appears that today only about 200 million people will be affected today. The rest of us have to wait until October before we simply cease to exist and lose consciousness. .

For those of you rapturians who get to ride the express elevator to heaven today, Bon Voyage and don't forget to write!

Harold Camping gained notoriety due to his prediction that the Christian Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011 and that the end of the world will take place five months later on October 21, 2011. Followers of Camping claimed that around 200 million people (approximately 3% of the world's population) would be raptured. As for the remainder of the human population, Camping himself believes in annihilationism, which is the view that those who are not saved will simply cease to be conscious rather than spend eternity in Hell. Those who were "unsaved" and died prior to May 21 will not be affected by or experience the Rapture or the end of the world.